"dcTrack helps bring order to the complex maze of data center infrastructures. When you have a dynamic and complex environment with many moving parts and interdependencies, you look for solutions to help make it easier to manage. Sunbird's dcTrack does that by providing us with an easy way to get accurate information on our infrastructures. Because dcTrack covers the entire lifecycle of an...

"With dcTrack we have an up-to-minute picture of capacities in all our data centers in terms of power, space, networking and cooling. As a result, we are able to track our data center capacity more accurately and assess our infrastructure needs for the future. Before we deployed dcTrack, it would mean a trip out onto the data center floor to confirm or deny that a server is in a certain...

"We use Power IQ to generate monthly energy-trend reports that provide customers with actual usage levels by server and IT device….it enables us to provide our customers the ability to run their own reports and to securely power cycle their equipment via a Web interface. Our customers [are] able to take a more active role in managing their servers and their energy utilization."

"There is a need to increase efficiency through technology...data center infrastructure management tools like dcTrack help you with power management, capacity planning and change management. System monitoring tools help you track the health of the network."

"The largest improvement that I see is being able to monitor power usage in our lab and making sure that our PDUs don’t get overloaded. We’ve gone through a few retirement phases and we can track that with the graphs in PIQ — we see the power usage going down. Being able to see the temperature throughout our lab is also pivotal."